A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations

Goldstein, Louis and Round, Erich R. (2005) A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations. London, U.K., The Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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Kayardild has eight remaining fluent speakers, all elderly, on Mornington and Bentinck Islands, Australia. The language is described in a grammar, a dictionary, and an initial intonational phonology, but we still lack any annotated documentation beyond a handful of texts. This project will begin building an audiovisual corpus of Kayardild, as well as recovering metadata for older recordings, and sounding out directions for further documentation in the near future. It will produce audiovisual data with time-aligned interlinear, rhythmic and intonational annotations and translations. Prosodic transcription will be transparent for widespread use, but accompanied also by a more technical, ToBI-like key.